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Columbus Clippers Game #105 Game Information Home Game #54 Media Relations Department - 330 Huntington Park Ln., Columbus, OH 43215 - (614)-462-5250 - [email protected] Sunday, July 28 (4:05) - Huntington Park Gwinnett Stripers Columbus Clippers (Atlanta Braves) vs. (Cleveland Indians) RHP Bryse Wilson (5-7, 4.30) RHP Michael Peoples (7-4, 4.77) (62-43) (60-44) LAST GAME Upcoming Probables July 27 R H E LOB Monday, July 29 at Indianapolis (7:05): RHP Shao-Ching Chiang (6-7, 5.55) vs. RHP Eduardo Vera (5-8, 6.71) Gwinnett3 4 0 6 Tuesday, July 30 at Indianapolis (7:05): RHP Aaron Civale (3-1, 2.29) vs. RHP James Marvel (3-0, 1.90) Columbus 7011 5 Wednesday, July 31 vs. Louisville (7:05): TBA vs. RHP Mitch Talbot (2-3, 6.25) W: Cam Hill (3-0) Thursday, August 1 vs. Louisville (7:05): TBA vs. TBA L: Kolby Allard (7-5) Today's Game S: The Clippers will send RHP Michael Peoples to the mound today, attempting to win their first road series since 7/4-7/7 vs. Louisville HR: Tom (1), Flaherty (16), (concluded streak of five straight home series wins, 0-2 since). Gwinnett will counter with RHP Bryse Wilson. The Clippers are 37-35 Haase (24); Ortega (20), (.514) against right handers this season. Wilson has never pitched against the Clippers in his career. Jackson (23) Highlights vs. the Stripers Danny Salazar sparkled on the Columbus is 1-1 against Gwinnett in 2019, but has won 19 of the last 27 regular season matchups (47-27, .635, opposing Gwinnett since mound again (4.0IP, 1H, 0R, the start of 2010). The Clippers have won 10 of the last 12 in Huntington Park and have not lost a home series to Gwinnett since 2011 (7- 0ER, 1BB, 5K) and the 6-7-8 0-1 in last eight). Friday night's 12-run outburst from Gwinnett was the first time allowing 10+ to the Stripers in 66 games (6/27/10). hitters all went deep. Bobby Bradley doubled twice and had Pummeled Pitching an RBI. A night after snapping a five game streak allowing at least 3HR at home, the staff gave up two last night (Gwinnett now has 91HR on the road, six behind Columbus for the IL lead). After allowing 17HR through the first 15 home games, the Clippers have served up 83HR in the last 38 (opponents have HP record 100HR this year). On the year, 20% of hits allowed at home have cleared the fence (worst in IL). Canyons at Home CLIPPER QUICK FACTS The Clippers haven't just dug themselves into holes at home, but have made it virtually impossible to mount a comeback, with Friday's 12- Current Streak: W1 run deficit marking the sixth straight home game that they found themselves trailing by at least four. On the year, the Clippers have Home Streak: W1 trailed by as many as eight runs in 10 games (t-2nd most in IL) and all 10 have come at home (-46 run differential at home). Home: 26-27 July: 11-12 Ticking Tom Bomb Sunday: 8-9 Ka'ai Tom has gone 7x24 in six games since his 16 game hit streak (career high, .400, 24x60, 6/29-7/18) and 26 game on-base streak Day Games: 15-15 (.442OBP, 6/19-7/18) were snapped on 7/19. Going back to 5/21 with Akron, Tom has reached in 59 of 61, slashing .350/.440/.614 with vs. South: 16-8 11HR and 42RBI (220AB). Last night's HR snapped a streak of 74AB without (longest drought since 86AB, 4/16-5/10; 9HR in next 72AB). Last 10: 4-6 Consecutive days in 1st: 50 Starting Anew Scoring at least 4 runs: 50-21 Daniel Johnson has a pair of multi-hit games since seeing his on-base streak snapped at 33 on Wednesday (career best, .383OBP, Scoring less than 4 runs: 10-23 6/13-7/23). Since joining the Clippers on 5/25, Johnson has reached base in 51 of 54 and all those times on base have allowed him to Come from behind wins: 24 score 39 runs (4th most in IL since 5/25; Brandon Barnes is 2nd the IL with 41 runs and leads with 48RBI over that time period). Last at bat wins: 13 Team Batting: .260, 11th Power Outage Team Pitching: 4.86, 8th Of the four Clippers with at least 20HR, only Trayce Thompson (24) had homered this week, until Eric Haase last night (24, first since Team Defense: .982, 2nd 7/5, 3x45 in between; snapped group homerless streak of 53AB). Brandon Barnes (22) last left the yard on 7/20 at Buffalo and Bobby Bradley (25) went deep on 7/18 at Scranton/WB (only HR since 7/16 option, 29AB; had 21HR in last 161AB prior to recall). LEAGUE STANDINGS North W - L Pct GB Yu Better Believe It SWB 60 - 45 .571 - Yu Chang has played in 28 games since returning from the DL, already putting up 37 hits and 22RBI (had eight hits and 9RBI in 15 BUF 54 - 51 .514 6.0 games before injury). Chang has slashed .330/.398/.554 in those 28, collecting 12 multi-hit games and 14XBH. He has seen his season SYR 53 - 52 .505 7.0 average increase to .273 from .151, while also seeing jumps of 118 and 216 points in OBP and SLG, respectively. ROC 51 - 54 .486 9.0 LHV 50 - 53 .485 9.0 Here We Go Again PAW 46 - 58 .442 13.5 The lineup had 9K last night, marking the 15th time in 16 games since the Break that the Clippers had at least 9K. They have opened up South W - L Pct GB a 56K team lead in the IL (only +15 prior) and have long since topped 1,000 for the year (ninth straight season; once from 1977-2010). All GWN 62 - 43 .590 - four of the 20HR guys have at least 16K since 7/11 (combined: .168, 29x173, with 7HR and 79K), as does Yu Chang (.333, 20x60, 3HR). DUR 61 -45 .575 1.5 CHA 54 - 51 .514 8.0 No Relief NOR 41 - 64 .390 21.0 The bullpen allowed multiple runs last night for the sixth straight game, posting an 8.89ERA since 7/21 (27.1IP, 27ER). Of 15HR allowed West W - L Pct GB by the staff in the last six games, nine have come on the bullpen's watch (worst HR rate in the IL, one every 21.5AB). Only Rob COL 60 - 44 .577 - Kaminsky (2.1IP) and Phil Maton (3.1IP) have not allowed a run in the last six, but Kaminsky has allowed three inherited runners in. IND 53 - 51 .510 7.0 TOL 46 - 59 .438 14.5 ORGANIZATION REPORT vs. GWINNETT LOU 42 - 63 .400 18.5 Cleveland (62-42), 2nd place Akron (34-35), 3rd place; (13-24), 6th place All-Time July 27 R H E 7/27 at Hartford, won, 6-0 (6) Home Road Overall League Notes Cleveland 9 14 0 7/28 at Hartford, 1:05 24-18 26-14 50-32 Kansas City 1 8 0 Lynchburg (32-35), 2nd place; (16-19), 4th place 2019 W- Clevinger (5-2), L- Sparkman (3-7) 7/27 vs. Winston-Salem, won, 4-2 Home Road Overall HR- Kipnis (8), Lindor (18), Ramirez (13) 7/28 vs. Winston-Salem, 3:00 1-1 0-0 1-1 Clevinger: 7.0IP, 8H, 1R, 1ER, 0BB, 7K Lake County (40-29), 2nd place*; (19-15), 3rd place 2018 Mercado: 4x5, 2R, RBI, 2B, CS, K 7/27 at Bowling Green, won, 7-5 (10) Home Road Overall 7/28 at KC, 2:15 (Bauer vs. Duffy) 7/28 at Bowling Green, 3:05 2-1 3-4 5-5 Governors' Cup Champions: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1996, 2010, 2011, 2015 IL West Division Champions: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016 Columbus Clippers Game Information Sunday, July 28 This Date in Clipper History Huntington (Small) Park 7/28/2000 In each of the first 10 years since the move downtown, Huntington Park has ranked among the top two in the IL in homers per game, The Clippers shutout the totaling 2.16 per contest (1,539HR, 714 games). Last year, HP averaged over a pair per game for the second straight year (sixth time Pawtucket Red Sox 3-0 at overall), but needed 5HR (all by the Clippers) on the season's final day to jump into 2nd place. The team total of 68HR was the lowest McCoy Stadium. Randy Keisler since 2015. Over the life of the park, the Clippers have hit fewer long balls than the opposition (875 to 836). picked up the win for Columbus, throwing 8.0 innings and year gms COLopp total avg rank yeargms COL opp total avg rank year gms COL opp total avg rank allowing 4 hits and 4 walks with 2009 71 57 73 130 1.83 2nd 201372 63 72 135 1.88 2nd 2017 71 95 88 183 2.58 1st 2010 72 90 83 173 2.40 2nd 2014 72 64 85 149 2.07 2nd 2018 69 68 76 144 2.09 2nd 6 strikeouts. Mike Coolbuagh 2011 72 100 77 177 2.46 1st 2015 72 62 64 126 1.75 2nd 2019 53 72 100 172 3.25 2nd and Kevin Orie hit solo 20127191 88 179 2.52 1st 2016 72 74 69 143 1.99 1st homeruns for Columbus.